2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDefinition of Entitlement
People keep posting that Hillary feels entitled to the nomination. That she is imperial, wants everything handed to her.
As I'm finding, this accusation of Hillary is a complete fabrication. if entitlement was the issue, Hillary would not have busted her butt to become a Junior Senator - and she FINISHED her term. Then she ran for President but accepted Obama's candidacy BEFORE damaging the party or PERSONALLY attacking Obama. Then she accepted a position as SOS (turning away high paying speeches and book contracts). She finished that term too. That is the definition of hard work - NOT entitlement.
People say she was a republican in her youth - I think we're talking 1960s here.
Bernie, on the other hand, has not registered as a Democrat. Never ran for the President's office. He kind of declared last year/this year that he was going to run. All the primary rules are published. And yet he's complaining that the process is fixed and needs to be changed for him. HE NEVER COMPLAINED ABOUT IT BEFORE.
The is the definition of privilege and I would say white male privilege. He only believes he can lose because something is wrong with the system.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)They want the superdelegates to overturn the will of the people and install Bernie as the Dem nominee.
msongs
(67,405 posts)CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)k8conant
(3,030 posts)I don't think you know the definition of entitlement.
Hard work?
Hillary only completed her 2nd term in the Senate because she didn't get the presidential nomination in 2008. She resigned as SOS after Obama's first term.
Yet, you say: "she FINISHED her term" and "She finished that term too".
You say Clinton "accepted Obama's candidacy BEFORE damaging the party or PERSONALLY attacking Obama".
Talk about rewriting history!!
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/04/30/clinton-smear-campaign-against-obama
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)There are tells and then there are TELLS.
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)and it's what I thought all along.
dick morris !
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I'd call the party telling an actual New Yorker to step aside so Clinton can run for Senate in that state to be entitlement of the highest sort.
I'd also call turning a black man's church into a campaign issue to be a pretty personal attack.